Xamarin (Visual Studio) vs Android Studio and Kotlin

You probably already know the basic differences between developing in Xamarin Android and native development in Android Studio.

Xamarin is cross-platform and even when you choose to use Xamarin Android instead of Xamarin Forms you can still share the main chunk of your code which is not dealing with OS specific stuff, with iOS application.

What if you want to develop only for Android though? Should you choose Xamarin and Visual Studio or Android Studio. And is it better to develop in Java or in Kotlin?

Make a CALCULATOR App with Xamarin Android #1 – Making the UI

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a simple android calculator app. More precisely, in this first part we will be dealing with the UI – writing XML, using LinearLayout, GridLayout, support libraries, custom styles and more Android goodness!